在这本书里 ,我写了当代中国某一部分人物。通常 ,我们把这些人叫做知识分子。我自己也是其中的一员 ,所以 ,写他们有如写自己。他们那些荒谬的境遇 ,那些难以化解的痛苦 ,那些小小的欢乐 ,那些在失败中不愿放弃的微薄的希望 ,我自己都感同身受。如果我对他们有嘲讽 ,有批判 , In this book, I wrote a part of contemporary China. Often, we call these people intellectuals. I myself am one of them, so I write them like writing myself. Their absurd situations, the pains that are hard to dissolve, the little joys, the meager hopes that they are unwilling to give up in failure, I feel empathy. If I have ridiculed them and criticized them,